Federal Policy Analysis – Environmental and Energy Law Program

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NAAQS Overview

EPA sets National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for six common and harmful pollutants (also called criteria pollutants): carbon monoxide, lead, particulate matter (PM), ozone, nitrogen dioxide, and sulfur dioxide. […]

August 29, 2024

Clean Energy Tax Credits & Changes Made by the Inflation Reduction Act

Two federal tax credits—the investment tax credit (ITC) and the production tax credit (PTC)—have played a significant role in catalyzing development of clean energy projects. The ITC, which was created […]

November 20, 2023

CleanLaw Podcast

CleanLaw Quick Take: The Debt Ceiling Bill and NEPA Permitting Reform with Ari Peskoe and Carrie Jenks

Hannah Perls, Carrie Jenks, and Ari Peskoe break down recent changes to federal permitting passed as part of the Fiscal Responsibility Act, aka the debt ceiling bill, signed by President Biden on June 3rd, 2023.

June 8, 2023

The Inflation Reduction Act’s Implications for Biden’s Climate and Environmental Justice Priorities

The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), passed by Congress on August 12, 2022, creates important incentives for clean energy and equity-centered environmental investments. The bill is a step toward greater federal […]

August 12, 2022

Legal Challenges to President Biden’s Social Cost of Greenhouse Gases Estimates

The social cost of greenhouse gases (or social cost of carbon) is a metric that helps federal agencies account for the potential economic impacts of their rulemakings on climate. President […]

May 27, 2022

Structural Deregulation—Jody Freeman and Sharon Jacobs in the Harvard Law Review

“Modern critics of the administrative state portray agencies as omnipotent behemoths, invested with vast delegated powers and largely unaccountable to the political branches of government. This picture, we argue, understates […]

December 10, 2021

Siting Renewable Energy on Public Lands: Existing Regulations and Recommendations

The Biden administration has committed to expand renewable energy development in the United States, including on public lands. Congress has also directed the Secretary to expand renewable energy permitting on […]

May 13, 2021

Biden’s First 100 Days of Climate Action

Over the past four years, EELP closely tracked the Trump administration’s environmental deregulatory efforts. After the 2020 presidential election, we shifted our focus to assessing what these deregulatory actions would […]

May 11, 2021

EELP News

The Biden Administration’s First 100 Days: Undoing the Undoing of Environmental Protection Law

On April 8, Jody Freeman and Richard Lazarus presented a webinar co-sponsored by EELP and the Harvard University Center for the Environment. Their discussion focused on the efforts over the […]

April 22, 2021